Yellowstone National Park was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, becoming the first national park in the U.S. Forty-four years after the establishment of Yellowstone, President Woodrow Wilson created the National Park Service, Aug. 25, 1916.
A photograph of Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park, 1870.
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- Yellowstone National Park was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, becoming the first national park in the U.S. Forty-four years after the establishment of Yellowstone, President Woodrow Wilson created the National Park Service, Aug. 25, 1916. A photograph of Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park, 1870.William Henry Jackson/GraphicaArtis/Getty Images
- A tourist photo of two women standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon in the early 1900s.Jonathan Kirn/Corbis/Getty Images
- President Theodore Roosevelt and conservationist John Muir (to the president's left) in Yosemite Valley, California, 1903.PhotoQuest/Getty Images
- A stagecoach takes tourists past Jupiter Terrace in Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park. The buildings of Fort Yellowstone can be seen in the distance, 1905.Detroit Photographic Company/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images
- Mary Crehore Bedell and her traveling companions at Yellowstone National Park, 1922. The car has several park entrance fee decals on the windshield and the AAA emblem on its grille.National Park Service
- Two women in bathing suits and climbing gear hike up to an ice cave under Paradise Glacier, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, 1928.Underwood Archives/Getty Images
- A general view of a logging camp in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, 1930.R. Gates/Getty Images
- American sculptor Gutzon Borglum, who is leading the Mount Rushmore National Memorial project, and his son, Lincoln, inspect the Jefferson head from an aerial tram, Nov. 23, 1935.George Rinhart/Corbis/Getty Images
- Blackfoot teepees at Glacier National Park, Montana, 1950.Fox Photos/Getty Images
- A man stands beside his automobile, examining a map at the entrance to Death Valley National Monument, 1951, in the California desert.Gene Lester/Getty Images
- A group of boys go off for a fishing trip in the Florida Everglades National Park, 1952.Keystone/Getty Images
- A glaciated landscape in Rocky Mountain National Park, 1953.George Silk/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
- View of the seating area and lounge at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park, near Moran, Wyoming, 1955.J. R. Eyerman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
- Bears beg for food at a car in Yellowstone National Park, August 1958.Jack E. Boucher/National Park Service
